This edition contains updated figures, additional tutorial material, and revisions to reflect recent changes in WAVE .
Since version 1, WAVE has used the XView toolkit, an open source implementation of the Open Look GUI. Open Look is an elegant and easy-to-use GUI, but it is no longer being actively developed or supported, and as a result, it is unfamiliar to many first-time WAVE users. Newer user interface toolkits, such as the open source GTK+ toolkit, have converged on a common set of graphical elements and behaviors resembling those of the Motif GUI. GTK+ has a very active developer community and has been ported from Linux to many other Unix variants, and to MS Windows. A version of WAVE that uses the GTK+ toolkit is now available from PhysioNet. Sources and precompiled versions of GTKWave for Linux and for MS-Windows are available at http://www.physionet.org/physiotools/beta/gtkwave/. Although GTKWave is still in development, it is quite usable and contains nearly all of the functionality of the XView-based WAVE described in this Guide.
This guide serves as the primary documentation for both WAVE and GTKWave, but the current edition does not contain any information specific to GTKWave.
If you find a difference between GTKWave and what is described in the Wave User's Guide (other than a cosmetic difference in the user interface elements), please check the GTKWave Beta Notes page on PhysioNet (http://www.physionet.org/physiotools/beta/gtkwave/notes.shtml) to see if this difference has already been reported. If not, please send me a note, citing the page number in the printed Wave User's Guide, or the exact URL in the online version. Indicate what is different in GTKWave, the name and version of the operating system you are using, and suggest how the text should be changed. Your reports will help us to prepare an accurate and up-to-date guide for GTKWave.
GBM
Cambridge, Massachusetts
June, 2002